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  • noun Plural form of sawmill.

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Examples

  • But the sawmills were the things themselves, concrete and tangible, and they were things that were a means to the doing of more things.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • This young girl moved away from her family for the first time and into the mountains with her husband as he struggled to find work in sawmills.

    My Heart Won't Let Me Stop . . . 1998

  • This young girl moved away from her family for the first time and into the mountains with her husband as he struggled to find work in sawmills.

    My Heart Won't Let Me Stop . . . 1998

  • But the sawmills were the things themselves, concrete and tangible, and they were things that were a means to the doing of more things.

    Chapter XI 1910

  • They get a nice tax break, too: Dividends from a forest (the sale of logs to sawmills, that is) are treated as a capital gain.

    Forbes.com: News 2009

  • Local wood processors, such as sawmills, don't produce enough waste wood to satisfy the incinerator.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomington Alternati 2010

  • Unlike wind farms that can cover huge landscapes, both physically and visually, biomass operations are and can be located at existing facilities such as sawmills and wood products manufacturing plants.

    greatfallstribune.com - SPORTS 2010

  • Local wood processors, such as sawmills, don't produce enough waste wood to satisfy the incinerator.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Bloomington Alternati 2010

  • INDUSTRIES: The state's forests support 180 primary wood-using industries (such as sawmills) and 750 secondary wood-using industries (such as furniture).

    2theadvocate.com Latest News 2009

  • Just near Aberdeen, five sawmills have closed since 2007.

    Old Port Profits With New Exports Joel Millman 2011

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